Project Selection-Magazine

If i could have done final revisions then i would have changed my table of contents and title font to match with my group members. Also would have changed the size of the text to a smaller one to add more information. Also would have added some more variety of pictures. I would have moved the information text on the bottom of the title page so you can read it easier. Also if it wasn't for quarantine i would have more pictures of inside Pei Wei, for instance the kitchen.

I incorporated technology into the process with many programs. I used publisher to start my outline for my magazine pages to see the basic setup of them for a draft. Then i changed to Indesign to make the magazine pages look more professional and completed. I was adding pictures, page numbers, and just making it look overall more cleaner. I also used and made an Instagram for our food magazine to spread it out.

My production skills changed a lot throughout the project. The first month i was very confused so i barely did anything to the project. But as i started looking more at it i found out how to do things productively. I started to turn posts on time and doing the right things in the posts. I learned how to use indesign to make my magazine pages a lot more clean and professional looking. And my research changed over time after the first month of two, i started to take real notes and printing sites out to help me understand how a real food magazine should look like and outlined.

2. Our magazine engages the audience because its colorful but not to much. It also has a delicious dish on the front of each of our magazines, doesn't matter what type of culture of food it is. And our marketing plan will work because we are on social media and most people now are on some type of it. On it we will show a sneak peak of what we have to offer and have information about it, so if they are interested can buy our magazine. I learned from our distribution research that we need to show that we are interested in our customers and we need to be out there to be effective. For instance a TV commercial would be effective because everyone watches TV and there needs to be some people who watch TV that likes food and recipes. It will be effective because a large amount of people will be on where we advertise our magazine.

1. My product uses conventions because it is a food magazine and to make it we took influence from other food magazines like food and wine. For instance the cover has a big picture of the type of food that you will see in it. We also made the articles like it, it is two pages and has a mix of pictures and words, also like a lot of magazines we put ads in some pages, usually every 3 or 4 articles. Our magazine represents social groups like people who like to cook and maybe more towards the women side because they tend to cook more than men. Also maybe people who want to learn more about the Asian ethic food. It shows a lot of interests, it has food, shows how to make it, and some cool information about it.

For my third quarter submission i revised my cover, table of contents, and my one article. Now all of them look more professional and complete. I added the page numbers also and pictures. I made the page numbers so that they match up with the table of contents. I added the pictures because now you can see what the food i am talking about looks like.

For my 3rd part of revisions I am redoing my cover. Before i changed it is was just the title and a straight color. This time i changed it, there is a picture, and it is just more overall clean looking.

My distribution plan for my magazine is that i will make a social media account for the magazine and a billboard advertisement for my food magazine. I will make an Instagram account for the Food Illustrated magazine. It will show previews of what the magazine has to offer, including some pictures. With the billboard it will have our Magazine name and a little of what it has to offer. It will also have a way to find it online.

Another way magazine companies distribute there magazine is with commercial advertisements on TV. With a TV commercial advertisement the companies can get new subscribers very easily and with little work. The consumer could just be watching TV while chilling on their couch watching sports or news and then an ad comes up for your magazine and if they are interested then they will buy a subscription. For example,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04XirbnQHSE , the magazine, amazing magazine, made a TV commercial. In the commercial it shows off what it offers. It is a children magazine with big colorful parts to it with things like fun facts.

Another way a magazine company can distribute there magazine is with billboards. If a magazine is being advertised on a billboard and someone is stuck in traffic they will look around and read it. If it is something like a fashion magazine and they are into fashion they may consider to look up the magazine when they get home and subscribe to it. For example, the magazine, Easy Living, made a billboard advertisement for there magazine, it shows a preview of what is in the magazine and if someone is interested they will look it up and maybe subscribe.

One method of distribution with magazines is with social media. A magazine brand can make a social media account and show a preview of what there magazine has to offer. From there account on something like Facebook, twitter, or Instagram, they can have a link to there website where the consumer could buy the magazine from there. For example, this magazine named, Foundr, has an Instagram page. As you can see they show little parts of there magazine, so if the person is intrigued they can click the link and buy a subscription.

The traditional distribution of a magazine is the usual amount of the magazine that is distributed, or bought throughout the year. For most magazines they type of distribution is with social media. They will have an Instagram, twitter, and Facebook. They might also have a billboard, talking about there magazine. The billboard will be very eye popping.

For my second revision i will be redoing my table of contents to look a lot better and cleaner than the original. I added pages numbers, added a picture, made it look genuinely cleaner, and not as brightly colored.

It was the first time i ever used Indesign. It is a very confusing and difficult thing to use and. When you get to learn how to use it though, it is a very useful and helpful site. I am using Indesign to make my magazine pages look a lot more professional than they originally did. The site has so many little useful tools to make sure your project is a perfect as it can be.

For my first revisions I put page numbers on the bottom of my articles. I did this because it is a little but important part of the magazine. In the table of contents it tells you which age to go to but if there are no page numbers it is useless.

Based on my research in to the marketing of other magazines i plan on marketing my product on social media. Specifically Instagram, i have made a profile for my magazine, it shows off some of the food that the magazine offers, but wont have everything that the magazine has so they will pick up the actual magazine. I will also have a billboard for my magazine product. The billboard will look something like the picture below but it would be our magazine. s

The target audience for my magazine will most likely be people who like to cook and more females. The reason why there would be people who like to cook is because i am making a food magazine. Generally more females look at magazines dealing with food because they are more interested in making the items in the magazine.

I plan on adding my pictures to the cover, table of contents, and two page article submissions. and changing the background cover of my article to a white instead of a red. Also make everything more symmetrical and fix the font of the cover. I will make these changes because the magazine will look a lot more professional. Also it will look complete.